Katherine Daigle, a two-time failed Irvine Mayoral candidate who has been accused of being a proxy for despised former Irvine Councilman Larry Agran, has pulled papers to challenge incumbent Assemblyman Matt Harper in the election for the 74th Assembly District. Daigle and Harper are Republicans.

The only Democrat in the race, Karina Onofre, also ran for the 74th A.D. in 2014, when her presence in that race caused another Democrat, Anila Ali, to slip into third place, behind Harper and the leader in that year’s primary election, Newport Beach Councilman Keith Curry. Continue reading→

Longtime Irvine Councilman Larry Agran and his sidekicks Mary Ann Gaido and Melissa Fox tried to fool the voters of Irvine into thinking that the over-development of their community was somehow the fault of the current Irvine City Council majority. Well it didn’t work, in great part because of the brilliant Agran Audit campaign, which gave the people of Irvine access to the OC Great Park audit information which was a stunning indictment of Agran’s wasteful ways.

The Republican majority on the Irvine City Council was bolstered by the addition of conservative Lynn Schott, who turned out to be the top vote-getter on Nov. 4. Councilman Jeff Lalloway also won, in a squeaker, over Fox. The dreadful Agran came in almost last – a spot that was reserved for Evan Chemers, who has now lost badly in two unsuccessful City Council campaigns. Continue reading→

Agran and Fox are running as a slate. Schott is looking to team up with the Council majority, which includes Lalloway, and Even Chemers is not allied with anyone. He is making his second run for the Council after losing previously in 2012., with 10.7% of the vote, according to Smart Voter. Schott got 18.9% of the vote in that same election, just missing victory by about 1% of the vote. Continue reading→

Update: I must be a prophet. Agran did lose and it is clear now that Daigle took votes from him, not from Choi – an epic backfire for Agran!

The conventional wisdom has it that Irvine Mayoral candidate Larry Agran won by convincing Katherine Daigle to run for Mayor this year, instead of running for the City Council. The premise is that Daigle will split the GOP vote and allow Agran to defeat the top Mayoral candidate, Steven Choi.

But is that true? Or could it be that Daigle is going to end up taking votes away from Agran?

Katherine Daigle, “a conservative-leaning Irvine mayoral candidate has firmly denied being a “fraudulent” contender who naively went along with a plan to “steal” the local election,” according to the O.C. Register.

The OC Weekly broke the story earlier this month that a political consultant named Patrick Strader, allied with Larry Agran, had lured Daigle into the Irvine Mayor’s race in order to split the Republican vote, dooming top GOP challenger Steven Choi. Here are a few excerpts from the OC Weekly article: Continue reading→

Update: The OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley has uncovered evidence that Irvine mayoral candidate Larry Agran paid off a previous fake Republican candidate, Earle Zucht, in 2004. So how will Agran pay back this year’s decoy GOP candidate, Katherine Daigle? Read about that here.

Orange County’s best investigative reporter, the OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley, has done it again. This time he has exposed Irvine mayoral candidate Katherine Daigle for what she is – a Larry Agran plant meant to split the GOP vote so Councilman Steven Choi will lose.

Here are a few excerpts from Moxley’s groundbreaking post, which also reveals GOP consultant Adam Probolsky as yet another paid Agran shill (Probolsky responded on his Facebook page with this comment: “Crap publication @ocweekly blog post on #Irvine politics mentions me, has 12% facts/truth and 88% made up/fake news.” You wish Adam – you’re now exposed!): Continue reading→